intervalasteikot
Intervalasteikot, known in English as interval scales, are a type of measurement scale used in statistics and the social sciences. They assign numbers to observations such that differences between values are meaningful and equal in size. The zero point on an interval scale is arbitrary and does not indicate the absence of the quantity being measured.
Key properties include: the numbers preserve order, and the gaps between adjacent values are equal, allowing
Examples commonly cited as interval scales are the Celsius and Fahrenheit temperature scales and many standardized
In analysis, interval scales justify the use of means, standard deviations, and other parametric methods that